I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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The only certainty is death.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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